Comments on M’s Vs. A’s In Japan – But Not On TV

Couldn’t agree more, Steve. I assumed the game would be televised so I flipped to ESPN when I woke up. Nope, Sportscenter was on. ESPN2? No such luck, as Mike & Mike were yukking it up from some golf course in Houston. MLB Network? Surely they must’ve been carrying the first official game of the regular season. Wrong again.

Bud Selig proves again and again that he’s as big a buffoon as there’s ever been in the commissioner’s office. It’s amazing that owners keep on extending his contract and ponying up big, fat $18M paychecks to a dummy that can’t even get basic Promotion 101 right. Baseball is in great shape economically but it’s in spite of Selig, not because of him.

Would it have killed the MLB Network to pick up that video feed and then have two guys in the studio in NJ do the play by play and commentary?

Exactly. No reason why they couldn’t have done it this way.

If MLB is too cheap to cough up for the up-front production costs of getting a team to Japan to broadcast the game then they should’ve just told their broadcast team that bagels and coffee were on the house if they’d be willing to wake up at 5am for an early broadcast that they could’ve replayed again at 1pm and 7pm.

The funniest thing of all is that today’s game was televised on MLB Network. I watched a few innings of Bartolo Colon looking dominant, saw Yoenis Cespedes take a hideous swing that resulted in a HR and saw former Red Sox OF Josh Reddick take an equally hideous swing that also landed in the seats.

So if today’s game was worth televising, why wasn’t yesterday’s game worth televising? Bud Selig is an abject moron.